EDGERTON, Mo. — Authorities continued to search Sunday for two sisters who disappeared from a western Missouri home, leaving behind two young children, their purses and a cellphone.

Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, were reported missing Friday after Haarup's fiancé, Matt Meyers, came home to find his 6- and 18-month old daughters alone and in the same crib. Relatives of the women said there was blood on the couch in the Edgerton residence, located about 35 miles north of Kansas City.

"The truck was gone, the girls were gone and Matt has some personal guns that had been missing as well. That is all he had to tell me, and I knew something was wrong at that point," the mother of the missing women, Taresa Haarup, told KCTV.

EDGERTON, MO (KCTV) - The Platte County Sheriff's Office is speaking with a person of interest and has executed two search warrants in the case of the two missing sisters from Edgerton, MO.

Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, were reported missing Friday after Haarup's fiancé, Matt Meyers, came home to find his two baby daughters alone in the same crib and their mother nowhere to be found.

Authorities say this is an unusual disappearance because Haarup's 6- and 18-month-old daughters were left alone. The two children are doing fine with their father.

Hunt is under way, but family and police fear they have become victims of violence.

By MIKE HENDRICKSThe Kansas City Star

Ashley Key, 22 (left), and Britny Haarup, 19 (right).

Relatives of two missing Platte County sisters fear the worst.

After all, 19-year-old Britny Haarup never would have left her 6-month-old and 18-month-old daughters alone in a crib. Yet that is where Haarup’s fiancé found the youngsters when he got home about 4 p.m. Friday in Edgerton, Mo.

Haarup’s cellphone was there — along with her purse, her sister’s purse and the shoes her sister had been wearing.

Worse yet, blood soaked a comforter left on the couch, according to her father, Paul Haarup of Smithville.

“I want you to come home,” fiancé Matt Meyers said tearfully of Haarup. “Your babies love you and they miss you.”

Just west of 169 Highway, on 200th Street in rural Platte County, is where law enforcement officers found, on Saturday, July 14, 2012, the abandoned truck believed to have been driven by sister Britny Haarup and Ashley Key, who were reported missing Friday.

"Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, were reported missing Friday after Haarup's fiancé, Matt Meyers, came home to find his 6- and 18-month old daughters alone and in the same crib. Relatives of the women said there was blood on the couch in the Edgerton residence, located about 35 miles north of Kansas City.

"The truck was gone, the girls were gone and Matt has some personal guns that had been missing as well. That is all he had to tell me, and I knew something was wrong at that point," the mother of the missing women, Taresa Haarup, told KCTV."

Authorities in Platte County, Mo., say they may have found the bodies of two missing sisters, following a tip from a person of interest in the case.

The bodies were found in an open field in Clinton County late Sunday, according to ABC News station KMBC. Police have not confirmed whether they were the bodies of Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, who went missing Friday from their Edgerton home.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man high on methamphetamine was charged Monday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two sisters whose bodies were found in a field in northwest Missouri, an official said.

As officials talked about the killings of his daughters, Britny Haarup and Ashley Key, during a press conference Monday, Paul Haarup had to take a seat at the Platte County Resource Center. “My daughters were very wonderful people. Their short lives aren’t going to be forgotten,” he said

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Their father, Paul Haarup, said his family had been “sentenced to life.”“Our duty,” he said, “is to make sure that the three granddaughters left behind are very aware of how special their mothers were.”

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On Monday, Platte County authorities charged Miller, 31, of Trimble, with two counts of first-degree murder that contend he suffocated the two women in a rape attempt that turned deadly. His bond was set at $500,000.A conviction would carry a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd noted that he also could seek the death penalty.

As officials talked about the killings of his daughters, Britny Haarup and Ashley Key, during a press conference Monday, Paul Haarup had to take a seat at the Platte County Resource Center. “My daughters were very wonderful people. Their short lives aren’t going to be forgotten,” he said

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Their father, Paul Haarup, said his family had been “sentenced to life.”“Our duty,” he said, “is to make sure that the three granddaughters left behind are very aware of how special their mothers were.”

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On Monday, Platte County authorities charged Miller, 31, of Trimble, with two counts of first-degree murder that contend he suffocated the two women in a rape attempt that turned deadly. His bond was set at $500,000.A conviction would carry a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd noted that he also could seek the death penalty.

Dear heavens! In what sick, twisted mind is the murder of two young ladies even remotely comparable to being "nearly run off the road?" The article had a very non-hateful tone to it, which is good. However, if the writer calls the rest of us Christians "brethren" to these despicable monsters again, I might just have to write a strongly-worded letter.

PROTESTING: Protesting WHAT? Guess I am slow, dense, outta the loop.. but for the life of me, I cannot grasp WHY/WHAT these people protest. What purpose do they serve? Just what do they expect to accomplish? How can their protest accomplish anything?

PLATTE COUNTY, MO. — A Platte County judge sentenced Clifford Miller, 31, to two consecutive life terms without the possibility of probation after he pleaded guilty to the murders of Britny Haarup and her sister Ashley Key.

Miller admitted he was high on meth at the time of the July 2012 murders. He told investigators he went to their Edgerton, Mo., home with the intention of raping Britny.

Platte County Sheriff Richard Andersen says Miller was surprised to find Britny’s 22-year-old sister Ashley Key sleeping on the couch when he entered the home. When she confronted him, Miller told detectives he decided to kill her.